Lucky Meaning
/ˈlʌki/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjFavoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
adjProducing, or resulting in, good fortune
Sentence Examples
You're lucky because he didn't bite you.
My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.
His friend was killed and he knows he is lucky to be alive.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He considered himself very ____ to have survived the car crash without injuries.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She felt very ____ to have won the contest, as there were thousands of other people who had entered.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”), Saterland Frisian glukkelk (“happy”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare."
— 1872, Laurence William M. Lockhart, Fair to see, page 149:
"They sad ’cause they in their bowl / But fish in the bowl is lucky / They in for a worser fate"
— 1989, “Under the Sea”, in Howard Ashman (lyrics), Alan Menken (music), The Little Mermaid:
"The luckier and less disabled ones manned lifts or were posted at the doors of public buildings, a uniformed and bemedalled conciergerie who were more often than not unhelpful, making the most of whatever petty authority they were invested with."
— 2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
"A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket."
— 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He considered himself very ____ to have survived the car crash without injuries.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She felt very ____ to have won the contest, as there were thousands of other people who had entered.